| DESCRIPTION |
Outpatient surgical and non-OR procedures that are filed as encounters in
This option provides functionality:
- To count and/or list surgical cases and non-OR procedures that have
entries in PCE but have no matching entries in the OUTPATIENT ENCOUNTER
file (#409.68) or have matching entries that are non-count encounters
or encounters requiring action.
- To re-file with PCE the cases identified as having no matching entries
in the OUTPATIENT ENCOUNTER file (#409.68) or having matching entries
that are non-count encounters or encounters requiring action.
the Patient Care Encounters (PCE) package without an active, count clinic
Both the report and the re-filing process may be run for OR surgical
cases, non-OR procedures or both. The report and the re-filing process
may be run for a specific specialty or for all specialties and may be run
for a selected date range.
identified for each encounter are not transmitted to the National Patient
Care Database (NPCD) as workload. This option may be used as a tool for
identifying these encounters that represent uncounted workload so that
corrective actions may be taken in the Surgery package to insure these
procedures are associated with an active, count clinic. After corrections
are made, these encounters may be re-filed with PCE to be transmitted to
NPCD.
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